Posts by Rob Stowell
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Josie McNaught,
I used to do the panel regularly (goodness knows they could do with a few more women regardless) but after having a couple of swipes at Key, I ended up way down the list
Wow. Thanks Josie. The rot runs deep.
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Our eldest came home from school one afternoon terribly worried her parents were going to hell. It might have been funny if her emotions weren’t so seriously manipulated.
The ‘christian teachers’ were ignorant and mildly deranged fanatics. The ‘lessons’ involved low-grade colouring in and weapons-grade fear-mongering. We ‘opted out’ which, at Chch East in 1997, was also the only option for the Somalian kids.
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Wasn't it Woodhouse who had his own little OIA moment with the Donghau Liu letter Cunliffe signed? Maybe he learnt a lesson.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to giovanni tiso,
The entirely predictable Listener editorial: “Hager, of course, is no less guilty than Slater of trying to exert influence on the political process.”
$^%&*^&*%#*^&*)(()_)&(*^&^%^^^%""**!!!!!!!
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Keir Leslie,
Definitely the Waikato Times shouldn’t have run that story.
It’s hardly a front-pager, because an unnamed source and a facebook page aren’t much to go on, unless the unnamed source happens to be highly credible. Someone is lying.
His claims have been backed by a Waikato University student who saw the books in Letcher’s possession.
The source understood that Letcher had been given money from someone within the National Party to buy the books.
Letcher said: “I have one copy of the book and I haven’t finished it yet. I’m not involved in this."
(my italics)
More than likely the paper got played. Hopefully they’ll look into it thoroughly. But if it turns out to be true, it’s not such a stupid story.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to giovanni tiso,
Oh yeah, it’s super lazy from the media to run a story on Curwen’s say-so alone – I’m quite surprised it made it that far.
He himself said “So, apparently…”! To treat him like a primary source is simply insane.
To be fair on the paper, they also quote another UoW source, albeit unnamed. Hard for the reader to asses the credibility of the claim without knowing who that source is, or what evidence they have, but two sources is a pretty common policy.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
Tucker’s recollection back at the time was dodgy and his recollection now, three years later, is to be taken as the final word ?
Bravo Felix. It’s unravelling rather fast, as lies upon lies can do …
ETA - I'm way too slow, already linked :) -
^ looks terrific!
In case it hasn’t been mentioned- Stuart Page’s ‘How Bizarre: the story of an Otara Millionaire’ is screening 9:30 Monday 25th on Mäori TV. Should be good. -
Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Politics’ is governance not culture…
…so why hasNapier’s MTG has been forced to delay the launch of an exhibition of the late MP Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan’s clothing after the Electoral Commission raised concerns the display could influence voters on election day.
It now opens a week later on the 27th!
Looks like a great show – great graphics, great vision…At the time I felt blase about the changes to the Electoral Act. With this ruling (and the Key parody song) as examples (and no, not just because they are coming from the side of the fence I'm on) it's apparent I was wrong.
It's dodgy. It does appear to infringe basic freedom of speech and expression in ways that go well beyond what I thought was the intention.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Alec Morgan,
Though it is mildly amusing that Cactus withdraws while “Whaledump” stays for now at the SunHerald.
Having both at the same time would be clickbait, for sure, but perhaps a little too unpredictable for Te Herod. Odgers has written (writes?) a fair bit for Whaleoil; they seem closely connected. So any quantity of unpalatable Odger’s bile might arrive in the next dump.
Because writing for Whaleoil in itself clearly wasn’t enough to put The Herald off choosing her.